telling

[tellĀ·ing]

Disclosing unintentionally

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Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

Noun
disclosing information or giving evidence about another

Noun
informing by words

Noun
an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

Adjective S.
producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"

Adjective S.
powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

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Adjective S.
disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tell

a.
Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.


Telling

Tell"ing , a. Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

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Usage Examples

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

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